Roberto Bolaño - The Return

Los Angeles Times“Bite-sized guides to his longer works...” The sense of embattlement that animates the writing, and the scab-picking intensity that he brings to his obsessions, makes "The Return" a compelling encapsulation of Bolaño's work. You might feel conned by the artifice, but you won't be bored...

Booklist“Practiced the short story and the novel with equal genius...” This new collection of thirteen stories proves to be a defining sampler of Bolaño’s style, thematic concerns, and favored character types. At odds, intriguingly, with the bleak characters he depicts is his sensitive style...

Publishers Weekly“Subdued and sketchlike...” Comic bloodbaths, underworld confessionals and heartbreaking missed romancaes - Bolaño fans will recognize the writer’s merciless fusion of high art and dark human nature. The initiated and dedicated have a welcome feast of small desolations...

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